In an interview with POLITICO, Paul said hell return to Congress this week pushing measures long avoided by his party. He wants to work with liberal Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy and Republicans to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for pot possession. He wants to carve a compromise immigration plan with an eventual path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, a proposal he believes could be palatable to conservatives. And he believes his ideas  along with pushing for less U.S. military intervention in conflicts overseas  could help the GOP broaden its tent and appeal to crucial voting blocs that handed Democrats big wins in the West Coast, the Northeast and along the Great Lakes.

"He wants to work with liberal Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy and Republicans to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for pot possession. He wants to carve a compromise immigration plan with an eventual path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, a proposal he believes could be palatable to conservatives. And he believes his ideas  along with pushing for less U.S. military intervention in conflicts overseas  could help the GOP broaden its tent and appeal to crucial voting blocs that handed Democrats big wins in the West Coast, the Northeast and along the Great Lakes."

Oh, yeah. Let's emphasize the really important stuff.

How about cutting the frickin' spending ALREADY!! HOW ABOUT CUTTING THE FRICKIN' GOVERNMENT!!

Hey Paul - deal with voter fraud - start walking the talk or STHU! Conservative Allen West is SOLO in FL fighting - and the GOP has a great plan that conservatives will like.LOL!!

GO TO FLORIDA en mass and raise a stink!! What idiot would ever vote or support a GOP candidate again - when push comes to shove, they cave. So, IMO, it was all a big show to make sure the anti-American was elected! Prove me wrong.

How about cutting the frickin' spending ALREADY!! HOW ABOUT CUTTING THE FRICKIN' GOVERNMENT!!

With all due respect, Jim, he's tried that, too. From farther down in the article.

Paul hasnt given up on the tea party agenda; he plans to lead what he says is a national movement to help usher through a constitutional amendment limiting House members and senators to 12 years of service to throw some of the bums out just for length of service.

But after his first two years in elected office, few, if any of Pauls goals on his 2010 tea party platform have gone anywhere. He wanted to force lawmakers to wait one day for every 20 pages of a bill before a vote can occur  that never saw the light of day. He wanted to make sure every bill explicitly lays out its constitutional authority  that proposal is gathering dust. Often, he finds himself on the losing end of his own party  most notably on his recent push to slash foreign aid that failed resoundingly 10-81 over fears it would have weakened national security.

Paul's a mixed bag to be sure, but he's not ignoring the big issues. In fact, he's the only one addressing a lot of them. And, no, I'm not a "Paul-bot."

WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!! "Paul said the trade-off would be not to accept any new legal immigrants while were assimilating the ones who are here. Asked if he is concerned about the ripple effect that could cause around the world, Paul said the details over which countries would be affected are still in the works. SO the people trying to enter the USA legally will be forced to the back of the line to accommodate the illegals? Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83737_Page2.html#ixzz2C9O93ACW

It’s absolutely foolish for the GOP to think that if they pander, but just don’t do it to quite the level that the Democrats do, that they will somehow curry favor with the dependent class. The stupid half of the country doesn’t want to be half taken care of, they want ALL the freebies and only the Democrats offer that.

This has been proven time after time as the Karl Roves of the world urge the GOP to run more “moderate” (read: liberal) candidates, who then proceed to get their butts kicked by 100% pure liberal dem candidates. Republicans must offer a REAL alternative who makes clear distinctions between himself and the dem of the day. “Liberal lite” only gets us beaten.

The way to approach this is by acknowledging the desires of the dependent class (because let’s face it, they’re not giving up their selfishness) and crafting our message to offer a more appealing alternative to welfare and food stamps. We need to turn their self-interest in our favor by making achievement and the desire to be “rich”, however one defines it, appealing and “cool.”

I know that’s a very tall order, but I think there are enough people who are basically good, but just don’t understand what conservatives are offering, that we can peel some of them away from the dem plantation. We just need to find a way to reassure them that we understand their needs and fears and that we have a much better way to satisfy them in the long run. Not easy for sure as most in the dependent class will not be receptive, but it must be done if we’re to have any chance at all.

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posted on 11/13/2012 4:11:50 PM PST
by noiseman
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)

Neither party will kick out the crybaby welfare state illegals. They MUST not cave in and grant them citizenship without going through the legal process. The military person should be given first legal process to citizenship. If they fast-track the illegals, it will bring in so much more fraud, the US government will not be able to keep up. A great message-Hey, USA is allowing illegals, bring and send your criminals this way. What a stupid and illegal plan.

Well, he should forget about pushing the drugs, the sodomy and the aliens. That crap will not turnout the conservative base. Period. And it will not attract the leftists either because they’ll hang with the real godless socialist Marxists of the scummy free sex, free drugs, sodomy, open borders and free abortion party.

NUTS! I had three folks from MX that are legally here sign my petitions to fight illegal immigration plus many more from all over the bloody world! If it were not for IMMIGRANTS I would have had a labor shortage getting signatures during election. They are really pissed off! We found many libs are in agreement with E-Verify for city contracts and many red meat voters go for sanctuary city overthrow. Rand Paul is out of his friggin mind!

(However, Pro-War-on-Drugs is not conservative. It requires the New Deal Commerce Clause or an amendment at the federal level, neither of which respects original intent, state’s rights or personal liberty and responsibility.)

“Your attempt to turn this into a racial issue just shows your own bigotry.”

Whenever the discussion is about how to get 40% of the Hispanic vote or 20% of the Black vote, it is already a racial issue. And if you only get 50% of the “White” vote, guess what, you have pandered your principles and still lost.

I suggest that a more productive approach would be what Democrats do, which is racist against Whites which they divide and conquer, in reverse and find a way to 70% or 80% of the White vote. Whites were still 72% of voters. 70% of 72% would have been 50.4% of the vote.

Then you send the illegals and their “legal” descendants back to Mexico and the rest of liberalism to Canada and get back to the business of business (”The business of America is business.” Calvin Coolidge) and ruling the world, whatever anybody else who is too stupid to think thinks.

The immigration system we currently have is not functional. We do need continual immigrants entering our borders but there has to be a limit to what we can absorb. Our current problem is that it’s decided by neither the Mexican government or our government. There is a heck of a lot of room for improvement.

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